[en] It’s known that sexual health of people with psychiatric and psychological disorders is
often highly impoverished. Mental health professionals may feel helpless against these
sexual difficulties, because of being poorly trained to treat them and lacking the means
to do it. In this context, it seems important to inform patients about sexual difficulties
and treatment options. Although it’s impossible to assign a sex therapist to each
mental health service, it could be very useful to use bibliotherapeutic documentation
to guide people with sexual difficulties in finding solutions.
This mode of treatment which consists in putting information and therapeutic
guidelines on writing is called « bibliotherapy ». Some bibliotherapies have already
been developed and tested in the field of sexual disorders. Others, experimental, are
nowadays under clinical evaluation, notably by three of the authors of the present
paper. Bibliotherapy could be a helpful adjunct in improving the sexual health of dayhospital
patients.